News

Stay up to date with the latest news of the Ravi. K Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society.

Going Big with the Honors Capstone Projects 

The Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, & Society (MIBMS) Inaugural Summit wasn’t just an event, it was the culmination of a semester’s worth of effort on the part of Questrom undergrad honors students.   Each spring, the honors students take on a capstone project to finish

Continue reading
Image of a man holding a newspaper with the headline "the world is changing"

Paleolithic Emotions, Medieval Institutions, and God-like Technologies: A Reflection on the Human Condition in the 21st Century

By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The biologist E.O. Wilson once famously remarked, “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies” (Wilson, 2009). In this compact diagnosis of modern civilization, Wilson identified a dangerous asymmetry between the evolutionary

Continue reading
Questrom atrium

A Whole New Gateway to the Questrom Curriculum 

Why overhaul a course that, for over a decade, has been engaging, highly rated by students, and has enlisted a set of extremely dedicated faculty? Most programs would rest on those laurels. The SM131 introductory class is essentially the gateway to the Questrom curriculum for

Continue reading
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain book cover

Are we in a new Gilded Age?

By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The Gilded Age, a term coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 satirical novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, refers to a transformative period in U.S. history from approximately 1870 to 1900. It was characterized

Continue reading

The WBUR Festival

Join WBUR from May 29 – 31, 2025 for a weekend celebrating WBUR’s 75th anniversary and featuring speakers such as Ina Garten, Roxane Gay, Ira Glass, Jamelle Bouie, Busy Philipps, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and many more.  ​ Full schedule to be released

Continue reading
Home
Search
Explore
Drag